10 Times Celebrities Shared Their 'Zit Pics'

Quick question: Upon discovering a huge new zit that's taken over your face as its new home, what's the first thing you do? If you're a celebrity, these days the answer is clear. You stick some acne medicine on it, snap a no-makeup selfie, send it out to your millions of followers, and call it a day. Truly, not all heroes wear capes—because where once a big breakout meant tilting your head just so to hide it from social media's all-seeing eye, now, celebrities all over the place are leading the charge of acne-normalizing selfies.

It's a welcome shift from the freakishly smooth, filtered-to-the-nines skin of years past, and a natural evolution of the no-makeup selfies that cropped up more recently. Plus, in a world that's so hell-bent on zooming in on celebrities' so-called flaws, maybe they're just trying to beat haters to the punch. Either way, it's working. See what we mean with these snaps.

Lili Reinhart

Lili Reinhart doesn't shy from talking about her cystic acne, and on Instagram, that means frequent sightings of her zit-fighting arsenal. She's taken her followers through her extensive skin care routine before, but as anyone who's used a drying cream can attest, the novelty never really wears off. Conveniently, they also work.